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With their long tusks, elephants look elegant and strong. However, this unique feature is also the reason for     1     the animal is endangered. It has long been a problem worldwide that people kill elephants     2     their tusks.     3     laws have been introduced to ban the selling of tusks, they have not been enough to save the elephants.

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Recently I had an experience of eating dinner at a “dark restaurant”,     1     people eat in complete darkness. Diners ate     2     (they) whole meal in total blackness and had to rely on the waiters’ guidance if they needed to go to the bathroom. I wanted to understand the experience of being blind. Then I found out eating was a     3     (real) difficult activity.

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Legend in the south has it that a devil used to appear to harm children and the elderly. Firecrackers made noises and during the Spring Festival couplets also helped keep him away. But firecrackers couldn't go off all day, so children and the elderly also got hongbao, the red envelopes     1     (contain) money.

The tradition     2     (last) for thousands of years. It has also made its way into workplaces where bosses often give employees hongbao, hoping their companies and staff members have a good start. Nowadays,    3     (give) hongbao to children and the elderly remains popular among Chinese people all over the world.

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Last night, I was alone on the road, but when I     1     (drive) up to the light, it turned red, and I braked to a stop. Surprisingly, there was not a car, even no suggestion of headlights. But there I sat, waiting for the light to change. I was the only human being for at least a mile in any direction.

I started wondering why I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of     2     (catch) by the police, because there was obviously no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no danger in going through it. Much later that night, the same question of why I had stop for that light came back to me. It isn't only the law, but an agreement we have, and we trust each other to honor it: we don't go through red lights. Like most of us, I'm more ready     3     (stop) from doing something bad by the social agreement that disapproves of it than by any law against it.

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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music.    1     sets him apart is his ability to convey profound emotions through his compositions. In his twenties, he     2     (be) very famous for his skills on the piano, but then he began to lose his hearing.    3    he was challenged by the deafness, he continued to produce amazing pieces.

6 . Electric cars produce about 80 percent less pollution than those ___________ gas-powered motors. (用适当的的词填空)

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Centuries later, the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918, also called the Spanish Flu,     1     (strike) near the end of World War I. Families     2     had only just got through the war now had to bury their loved ones who had died of the disease. As a result of the war, more people were travelling and moving perhaps than ever before in history and this caused the epidemic to spread worldwide. Having killed up to 50 million people in 18 months, the Spanish Flu is believed to have been the    3     (severe) epidemic in history. More people died of the flu than died in the war. Initially, many people believed that such epidemics no longer posed a threat until very recently     4     SARS became a cause for concern.

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“Help, help!” I shouted, swimming towards the boat in desperation. I     1     (sink)! I couldn’t breathe! “Help!” My mouth filled with water; I struggled     2     being drawn deeper, deeper down. Suddenly I felt myself quickly     3     (draw) up to the surface of the sea; and I heard these words: “If master would be so good as to hold onto my shoulder, master would swim with much greater ease.” I grabbed my faithful Conseil’s arm with one hand.

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       We humans are Homo sapiens that     1     (probable) first evolved (进化) in Africa 315,000 years ago.     2     we and the apes (猿人) are somehow related is accepted by biologists everywhere. Yet the exact nature of our evolutionary relationships     3     (be) the subject of debate since Darwin published his book On the Origin of Species,     4     he never claimed, as other Victorian naturalists insisted he had, that “man evolved from apes”.

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       The Nobel Prize for Literature is an famous international prize     1     (award) annually to authors in recognition of their outstanding bodies of literary work. Each year, the laureate (获奖者)     2     (select) in October from a long list of candidates. The laureate     3     (receive) a gold medal and a diploma in addition to a large sum of money for the prize at a ceremony held in Stockholm.